Can you name some stars in the sky?

Question

Any names or other information about astronomical stars would help. please list as many as you can.

Answer 1

in order of size from smallest to largest.
Sirius, Pollux, Arcturus,Rigel,Aldebaran,
Betelgeuse, Antares.

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.

It is more than 1000 light years away.
The universe is so vast it is not comprehensible by the human mind.

Answer 2

Barnard's star. Its position in our galaxy and its velocity give it the appearance [from our point of view] of being the fastest moving star in the sky--relative to the background of the other stars in the Milky Way.

Betelgeuse - Orion the Hunter's right shoulder, well the one on the left when you're looking up at the constellation. It is a red giant star. Approx 15,000 times as luminous as our Sun and a diameter greater than Earth's orbit. In a few billion years, our Sun will become a red giant.

the Pleiades - yes, not an individual star, but a constellation of them. The neat point? If you look at them, although you can see seven or so with the naked eye, there are actually about 3,000 of them. Some astronomers believe these are all kids just leaving the stellar nursery--well, on astronomical time scales.

Answer 3

Sirius, Rigel, Bellatrix, Mintaka, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Castor, Pollux, Dubhe, Mizar, Alcor, Algol, Spica, Regulus, Vega, Procyon, Polaris, Capella, Deneb, Altair, Antares, Acrux, Achernar, Accturus, Canopus, Fomalhaut, Hadar, Sol, Alpha Centuri, Proxima Centuri, Bernard's Star, Sol.

Answer 4

All the answers given are great so as people who have been following my answers know (at last count there were two) time for "Logic's Logic".

Though some of the stars in the heavens have individual names, there are obviously too many to name them all. Given names usually followed the gods of the time, or some other mythical creation.

Throughout astronomical history, they have been cataloged and labled usually with some type of mumerical notation. (getting to the point) You can always name and follow stars by the fact of brightest to the dimmest, name of constellation and the greek alphabet. For example Alpha Tauri would be the brightest star in the constellation Taurus.

Answer 5

Altair, Pollux, Castor, Alpha Centauri, Sirius, Betelgeuse, Sinclair, Antares, Sol

Answer 6

The answer above is good, but doesn't not give any additional information about the star. See the source for more complete info.

Answer 7

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/starname.html

Answer 8

big deeper, small deeper, sun